Laura Kina
@laurakina.bsky.social
Queer crip mixed-race Uchinanchu American artist-scholar-activist
•Painter
•Professor, Art School, DePaul University
•Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture series editor UW Press
•Curator Virtual Asian American Art Museum
https://linktr.ee/LauraKina
•Painter
•Professor, Art School, DePaul University
•Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture series editor UW Press
•Curator Virtual Asian American Art Museum
https://linktr.ee/LauraKina
Opening today! Talk/Reception Sept 18.
“Recovery: Artwork by Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto”
University of Nebraska Omaha
Sept 2-Oct 31, 2025
Osborne Gallery, Criss Library
ARTISTS TALK Sept 18 12–1PM
RECEPTION Sept 18, 5-7PM
events.unomaha.edu/event/solace...
“Recovery: Artwork by Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto”
University of Nebraska Omaha
Sept 2-Oct 31, 2025
Osborne Gallery, Criss Library
ARTISTS TALK Sept 18 12–1PM
RECEPTION Sept 18, 5-7PM
events.unomaha.edu/event/solace...
Recovery: Artwork by Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto
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September 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Opening today! Talk/Reception Sept 18.
“Recovery: Artwork by Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto”
University of Nebraska Omaha
Sept 2-Oct 31, 2025
Osborne Gallery, Criss Library
ARTISTS TALK Sept 18 12–1PM
RECEPTION Sept 18, 5-7PM
events.unomaha.edu/event/solace...
“Recovery: Artwork by Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto”
University of Nebraska Omaha
Sept 2-Oct 31, 2025
Osborne Gallery, Criss Library
ARTISTS TALK Sept 18 12–1PM
RECEPTION Sept 18, 5-7PM
events.unomaha.edu/event/solace...
My book conversation with Jave Yoshimoto from Aug 15, 2025 at Beaverdale Books is now available on YouTube.
Learn about the artists, inspiration, and process behind our illustrated cookbook "Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes.”
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Learn about the artists, inspiration, and process behind our illustrated cookbook "Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes.”
youtu.be/5SNxVSwcQo8?...
Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto - Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes
YouTube video by Beaverdale Books
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September 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
My book conversation with Jave Yoshimoto from Aug 15, 2025 at Beaverdale Books is now available on YouTube.
Learn about the artists, inspiration, and process behind our illustrated cookbook "Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes.”
youtu.be/5SNxVSwcQo8?...
Learn about the artists, inspiration, and process behind our illustrated cookbook "Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes.”
youtu.be/5SNxVSwcQo8?...
Friday, Aug 15th 6:30pm join Jave Yoshimoto and I at Beaverdale Books (2629 Beaver Ave, Des Moines, Iowa) to celebrate our illustrated cookbook “Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes.”
August 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Friday, Aug 15th 6:30pm join Jave Yoshimoto and I at Beaverdale Books (2629 Beaver Ave, Des Moines, Iowa) to celebrate our illustrated cookbook “Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes.”
New summer painting! Laura Kina, “Gay Beach Day with Liz,” Oil on canvas, 20x16”, 2025.
July 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
New summer painting! Laura Kina, “Gay Beach Day with Liz,” Oil on canvas, 20x16”, 2025.
Look what’s on sale at the Buddy at the Chicago Cultural Center! Pick up a copy my my illustrated cookbook with Jave Yoshimoto “Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes” @uarkpress.bsky.social 2025
July 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Look what’s on sale at the Buddy at the Chicago Cultural Center! Pick up a copy my my illustrated cookbook with Jave Yoshimoto “Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes” @uarkpress.bsky.social 2025
Join Jave Yoshimoto and me on August 15th from 6:30-8pm in Des Moines, Iowa at Beaverdale Books for an artist/author talk for our illustrated cookbook "Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes" (University of Arkansas Press, 2025). beaverdalebooks.com/event/kina-y...
Meet the Artists/Authors - Beaverdale Books
Conceived during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and the accompanying rise in anti-Asian bigotry, Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes is an artists’ cookbook featuring stories and artwork...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Join Jave Yoshimoto and me on August 15th from 6:30-8pm in Des Moines, Iowa at Beaverdale Books for an artist/author talk for our illustrated cookbook "Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes" (University of Arkansas Press, 2025). beaverdalebooks.com/event/kina-y...
July 10-12 Symposium on Feminism and Intersectionality in Okinawa 2025. The full program is now available. www.oist.jp/club/interse...
Plenary 3 - July 12, 9:30 to 11:30 AM (GMT +9) [July 11 7:30pm CST online]
Laura Kina and Ai Oyafuso
Moderator: Victor Kinjo
www.oist.jp/club/interse...
Plenary 3 - July 12, 9:30 to 11:30 AM (GMT +9) [July 11 7:30pm CST online]
Laura Kina and Ai Oyafuso
Moderator: Victor Kinjo
www.oist.jp/club/interse...
July 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
July 10-12 Symposium on Feminism and Intersectionality in Okinawa 2025. The full program is now available. www.oist.jp/club/interse...
Plenary 3 - July 12, 9:30 to 11:30 AM (GMT +9) [July 11 7:30pm CST online]
Laura Kina and Ai Oyafuso
Moderator: Victor Kinjo
www.oist.jp/club/interse...
Plenary 3 - July 12, 9:30 to 11:30 AM (GMT +9) [July 11 7:30pm CST online]
Laura Kina and Ai Oyafuso
Moderator: Victor Kinjo
www.oist.jp/club/interse...
Now live! Listen to my interview with Chicago artist Cori Nakamura Lin on Tiger Balm - an intergenerational artist archive organized by Hương Ngô and Maggie Wong. tigertigerbalm.net/3-cori-nakam...
3. Cori Nakamura Lin + Laura Kina — Tiger Tiger Balm
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July 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Now live! Listen to my interview with Chicago artist Cori Nakamura Lin on Tiger Balm - an intergenerational artist archive organized by Hương Ngô and Maggie Wong. tigertigerbalm.net/3-cori-nakam...
Please help support Tiger Balm: An Intergenerational Artist Archive by Hương Ngô.
Tiger Balm is a series of intergenerational interviews conducted by artists of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora working in the United States.
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Tiger Balm is a series of intergenerational interviews conducted by artists of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora working in the United States.
www.3arts.org/projects/tig...
Tiger Balm: An Intergenerational Artist Archive
Tiger Balm is a series of intergenerational interviews conducted by artists of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora working in the United States. These conversations connect two artists at differen...
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July 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Please help support Tiger Balm: An Intergenerational Artist Archive by Hương Ngô.
Tiger Balm is a series of intergenerational interviews conducted by artists of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora working in the United States.
www.3arts.org/projects/tig...
Tiger Balm is a series of intergenerational interviews conducted by artists of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora working in the United States.
www.3arts.org/projects/tig...
Laura Kina, “Summer Gay Beach Hang with Jan and Shefali,” 2025, Oil on canvas, 20”x16”
#pride #gaybeach #hollywoodbeach #chicagoartist #painting #summervibes☀️
#pride #gaybeach #hollywoodbeach #chicagoartist #painting #summervibes☀️
June 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Laura Kina, “Summer Gay Beach Hang with Jan and Shefali,” 2025, Oil on canvas, 20”x16”
#pride #gaybeach #hollywoodbeach #chicagoartist #painting #summervibes☀️
#pride #gaybeach #hollywoodbeach #chicagoartist #painting #summervibes☀️
Calling all Japanese American & Nikkei Identifying young people in the Chicagoland area who are interested in social justice! Join us for Camp Daikon retreat July 12-13 at JASC with workshops on activism and identity. Free with advance registration. Apply by June 22.
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Camp Daikon Registration 2025
Saturday, July 12 & Sunday, July 13, 2025 | 10am - 4pm both days
Location: Japanese American Service Committee | 5700 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
Free with advance registration! | Deadline Extend...
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June 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Calling all Japanese American & Nikkei Identifying young people in the Chicagoland area who are interested in social justice! Join us for Camp Daikon retreat July 12-13 at JASC with workshops on activism and identity. Free with advance registration. Apply by June 22.
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Check artist Chanel Matsunami in: I Don't Camouflage Presents...CHANEL
A Film By Aiko Tanaka
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A Film By Aiko Tanaka
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"CHANEL" - IDC Mini Doc
YouTube video by I Don't Camouflage
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June 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Check artist Chanel Matsunami in: I Don't Camouflage Presents...CHANEL
A Film By Aiko Tanaka
youtu.be/w1iCck2_kvE?...
A Film By Aiko Tanaka
youtu.be/w1iCck2_kvE?...
July 10-12, 2025 “Symposium on Feminism and Intersectionality in Okinawa” at OIST. Submit to present by June 25!
Save the date “Laura Kina: Art at the Intersections: Painting Uchinanchu Queer Crip Futures” (online) (July 12 9:30-11:30am (Okinawa, GMT +9) (July 11 7:30pm CST) Moderator: Victor Kinjo
Save the date “Laura Kina: Art at the Intersections: Painting Uchinanchu Queer Crip Futures” (online) (July 12 9:30-11:30am (Okinawa, GMT +9) (July 11 7:30pm CST) Moderator: Victor Kinjo
June 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
July 10-12, 2025 “Symposium on Feminism and Intersectionality in Okinawa” at OIST. Submit to present by June 25!
Save the date “Laura Kina: Art at the Intersections: Painting Uchinanchu Queer Crip Futures” (online) (July 12 9:30-11:30am (Okinawa, GMT +9) (July 11 7:30pm CST) Moderator: Victor Kinjo
Save the date “Laura Kina: Art at the Intersections: Painting Uchinanchu Queer Crip Futures” (online) (July 12 9:30-11:30am (Okinawa, GMT +9) (July 11 7:30pm CST) Moderator: Victor Kinjo
On Shima, from a shima: Flash reviews of sho yamagushiku’s simmering spiral of decolonial Okinawan diasporic visual poetry
By Mira Shimabukuro
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By Mira Shimabukuro
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On Shima, from a shima: Flash reviews of sho yamagushiku’s simmering spiral of decolonial Okinawan diasporic visual poetry - International Examiner
Review by Mira Shimabukuro, with Laura Kina, Momi Cummings, Cassie Miura, Bean Yogi, and Jami Nakamura Lin “shima, n.: 1. a village; a community. 2. one’s home village. 3.one’s fief. 4. an island.”...
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June 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
On Shima, from a shima: Flash reviews of sho yamagushiku’s simmering spiral of decolonial Okinawan diasporic visual poetry
By Mira Shimabukuro
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By Mira Shimabukuro
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Join me on Wed May 14th 6-7:30pm at DePaul for Tara Asgar “Performing Idenity: Bodies that Burn and Bloom.” www.eventbrite.com/e/depaul-202...
May 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Join me on Wed May 14th 6-7:30pm at DePaul for Tara Asgar “Performing Idenity: Bodies that Burn and Bloom.” www.eventbrite.com/e/depaul-202...
Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing
Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity
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May 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tara Asgar “Performing Identity: Bodies that Burn and Bloom” May 14th 6pm at DePaul Levan 100. www.eventbrite.com/e/depaul-202...
May 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tara Asgar “Performing Identity: Bodies that Burn and Bloom” May 14th 6pm at DePaul Levan 100. www.eventbrite.com/e/depaul-202...
Save the date - I'll be doing an artist talk online at OIST in Okinawa on July 11th 9:30-11am (GMT+9). www.oist.jp/club/interse...
May 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Save the date - I'll be doing an artist talk online at OIST in Okinawa on July 11th 9:30-11am (GMT+9). www.oist.jp/club/interse...
@latimes.com Festival of Books
“Punks, Rebels, and Recipes: The Popular Culture of Asian America” panel hosted by Oliver S. Wang featuring Eric Nakamura, Elizabeth Ai, Jave Yoshimoto and Laura Kina.
“Punks, Rebels, and Recipes: The Popular Culture of Asian America” panel hosted by Oliver S. Wang featuring Eric Nakamura, Elizabeth Ai, Jave Yoshimoto and Laura Kina.
April 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
@latimes.com Festival of Books
“Punks, Rebels, and Recipes: The Popular Culture of Asian America” panel hosted by Oliver S. Wang featuring Eric Nakamura, Elizabeth Ai, Jave Yoshimoto and Laura Kina.
“Punks, Rebels, and Recipes: The Popular Culture of Asian America” panel hosted by Oliver S. Wang featuring Eric Nakamura, Elizabeth Ai, Jave Yoshimoto and Laura Kina.
Reposted by Laura Kina
LA Times Festival of Books Sun, April 27th 2pm “Punks, Rebels, and Recipes: Popular Culture of Asian America”: Elizabeth Ai of New Wave Documentary, Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot, and Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto’s cookbook Word of Mouth, moderated by Oliver Wang.
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April 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
LA Times Festival of Books Sun, April 27th 2pm “Punks, Rebels, and Recipes: Popular Culture of Asian America”: Elizabeth Ai of New Wave Documentary, Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot, and Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto’s cookbook Word of Mouth, moderated by Oliver Wang.
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Join us today at the LA Times Festival of Books at USC for Punks, Rebels, and Recipes: The Popular Culture of Asian America - SUN 4/27, 2:00 PM, Seeley G. Mudd 124. Featuring Oliver Wang, Eric Nakamura, Elizabeth Ai, Jave Yoshimoto, and Laura Kina.
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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2025 tickets by LA Times Festival of Books
Get your Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2025 Tickets at University of Southern California in Los Angeles by LA Times Festival of Books from Tixr.
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April 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Join us today at the LA Times Festival of Books at USC for Punks, Rebels, and Recipes: The Popular Culture of Asian America - SUN 4/27, 2:00 PM, Seeley G. Mudd 124. Featuring Oliver Wang, Eric Nakamura, Elizabeth Ai, Jave Yoshimoto, and Laura Kina.
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@awich098.bsky.social Check out Ferg & Awich “Butcher Shop” on Genius Open Mic. youtu.be/Hec4b7zzkpA?...
Awich and Ferg "Butcher Shop" (Live Performance) | Genius Open Mic
YouTube video by Genius
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April 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
@awich098.bsky.social Check out Ferg & Awich “Butcher Shop” on Genius Open Mic. youtu.be/Hec4b7zzkpA?...
Presented on a round table with fabulous artists, filmmakers, and screen writers @vsoe.bsky.social Anida Y Ali, Van Tran Nguyen, and Mayuran Tiruchelvam.
And artist Scott Tsuchitani after his panel talk at @aaas-socsci.bsky.social #aaas2025
And artist Scott Tsuchitani after his panel talk at @aaas-socsci.bsky.social #aaas2025
April 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Presented on a round table with fabulous artists, filmmakers, and screen writers @vsoe.bsky.social Anida Y Ali, Van Tran Nguyen, and Mayuran Tiruchelvam.
And artist Scott Tsuchitani after his panel talk at @aaas-socsci.bsky.social #aaas2025
And artist Scott Tsuchitani after his panel talk at @aaas-socsci.bsky.social #aaas2025
Reconnecting with my Uchinanchu sister @mitziueharacarter.bsky.social at @aaas-socsci.bsky.social #aaas2025
April 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reconnecting with my Uchinanchu sister @mitziueharacarter.bsky.social at @aaas-socsci.bsky.social #aaas2025
A hallway Hajichi moment with a fellow Uchinanchu Kari Okubo at @aaas-socsci.bsky.social #aaas2025
April 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A hallway Hajichi moment with a fellow Uchinanchu Kari Okubo at @aaas-socsci.bsky.social #aaas2025